WAAAAAAHHH !!! They’re cutting my welfare! I’m going to Georgia!
The N&O chronicles the movie industry crybabies as they pack up to leave North Carolina in the wake of a state decision to trim and streamline benefits for filming in
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Monkey Business Update: The plot thickens in Cabarrus?
Apparently, Charles Jeter (see comments at end of previous post) was not the only Republican legislator caught off guard by the local bill that simultaneously disarmed the Monroe city manager
Continue readingMonkey Business Update: Fletcher Hartsell & Cabarrus County
Can’t get your political shenanigans approved by being open, up front, and following the process? Go the sneaky route. That’s what has apparently happened on Jones Street regarding The Fletcher
Continue reading#NCSEN: Relax, green people. Thom is ONE OF YOU!
The environmentalist crowd and their drive by media pals are up in arms about the fact there has been no deal in the legislature regarding storage and disposal of coal
Continue reading#NCGA: Speaker Moffitt?
I spoke with a handful of Republican House members this weekend just for the sake of taking the political temperature. We’ve previously reported — thanks to inside information — that
Continue reading#NCGA: Drive-by disagreement on GOP “chaos”
In this morning’s dispatch from Low-T state HQ, the shih-tzu is lamenting this “never-ending session” of the North Carolina General Assembly. I am sure the fact that the session has
Continue readingIs moving left politically REALLY “Kinder and Gentler?”
My political life tracks back to the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign. That’s where I cut my teeth in this game. I was attracted to Bush because of his ties to my
Continue reading#NCGA: The abortion motorcycle rides again. (Um, sort of.)
There’s a rather, um, neat trick perpetrated on Jones Street, Capitol Hill, and in legislative bodies all over the country. Find an issue that the chamber is split on, and
Continue reading#NCGA: Drive-by Binky rankled by big govt? Seriously?
Rankled. If the drive-bys can use that word and play that card, then — by God — so can I. WRAL’s ace cub reporter (and lunch-fetcher for Miz Leslie) Binky is
Continue reading#NCGA: GOP House member laments his party’s back-track, retreat on tax policy
Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the
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